The latest example is Richard Rushfield, a good veteran reporter, “blogging” on the Hollywood Film Festival.
What’s wrong with it?
1. A mention of “a reporter” hosting a Q&A doesn’t mention that the reporter was Stephen Gaydos of Variety… competition. (Never mind that I was across the hall hosting a North Country Q&A).
2. Both Q&As were slightly disrupted by problems with the microphones
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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
Old Media is just jealous of the attention and influence that the new media has. When you have a monopoly for so many years, they’re is going to be animosity.
It’s the way of the future…
It’s the way of the future…
It’s the way of the future…
Stick a fork in the dinosaurs.
Well, I guess this will be another weekend with nothing making more than $16 million..this is getting ridiculous now:
Friday estimates
Doom 5.98
Dreamer 2.75
North Country 1.95
Stay probably made less than a million.
That’s TERRIBLE for North Country and it’s a real shame considering how good a movie it is. Doom will still be #1, but there probably won’t be anything else over $10 million. The four new movies combined won’t make close to what The Grudge made last year.
To them you’re probably Harry Knowles. A renegade who picks fights and jumps into bed with whoever you want using a forum and technology that doesn’t seem to be going anywhere.
(might I suggest the java “Hot” chatroom)
Actually Prema, if they thought I were that, they would be happy to extol my virtues.
A big part of what seems to make them edgy is that I do play by their foundational rules. As I have always said, this is what is problematic about AICN… by behaving like non-pros whie demanding the perks of pros, they give studios an excuse for not trusting the web while giving the media a symbol of the web that can be mocked with a “well, you can only really trust us old media types.”
Calling someone “an internet whatever” or a blogger is, for them, as nasty a pejorative as any bigotry offers. And all we in cyberspace can do, whatever our “slot,” is to just do the best work possible.
What is the director of “The Stunt Man” doing at a Charlize Theron press-gala?
They’re trying to put down their competition. They don’t understand the medium. How are they supposed to respect it?
DP, you’re one of the good guys in this industry, saying exactly what you think about exactly what you want to talk about. But don’t think for a moment you play by “their rules.”
When Matrix Reloaded came out, it was 5 months of passionate arguments for and against the film. When Revolutions was released, you (clearly underwhelmed) were all but silent, which kind of busted our vow of honesty. But given the medium you could get away with it!
My point is, the internet is a living organism and those who thrive in it MUST rewrite the rules. Hot Button is well removed from journalism, not nearly as much as the insidious Yojimbo types at AICN (and that’s not all together an insult boys), but it’s a new exciting frontierland where everybody gets their 40 acres. I say right on!
As Jack says in Easy Rider, “They’ll talk to ya and talk to ya and talk to ya about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it’s gonna scare ’em.”
I was thankful he wasn’t writing on the 3rd Matrix everyday. It was that bad. Why try and write about something that’s so horrendous?
But the Hot Button and MCN is journalism. If you don’t think so you’re living in the past.
“the insidious Yojimbo types at AICN (and that’s not all together an insult boys)”
Yes, clearly it’s a compliment.
Insidious Yojimbo types? Who are the two sides they’re playing against, the studios and the fanboys?
I love how DP never wrote about Matrix 3, then insisted that he had said everything that needed to be said about it. True indeed.
Fanboys aren’t journalists. It is funny that Harry and the AICN crew consider themselves such. They’re bloggers. But when you get paid by the people you’re reporting on? That’s unethical and a conflict.
Uh, how do you define journalism, Prema?
You may feel the result of THB is other than journalistic, but the existence and depth of the reporting I do has no small amount to do with the rules of traditional journalism by which I live. Maybe I should be pleased that you don’t see the seams. I don’t know.
I wasn’t being clear. You are very much a journalist (nobody gets into press screenings because of their bloodtype hey). It just think blogging is a different medium, with different responsibilities… look at that Rob Mckittrick thing two weeks ago. You jumped the gun and the whole forum became “Lord of The Flies.” It was vicious.
I’m not picking a fight here, I been with ya since Rough Cut. You’ve turned MCM into the DrudgeReport of this industry. But I’m intruiged by the organic nature of the internet, especially in relation to analog journalism. The ethics and “laws” of which are evolving in front of our very eyes. Very exciting.